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>>9989431
Joyce's fart letters

Erectile dysfunction prescriptions.

the place that does good Greek food

>>9989230
Yes, it's among the best works of literature of the 20th century.

>>9989304
> Is this good and if so, why?
> if so, why?

>>9989389
>not accepting shitposter's opinions without evidence
It has beautiful prose and excellent characterization. I'm thinking in particular Prunesquallor's development (or at least how is portrayal develops) and that of Fuchsia. Titus Alone also ventures into more interesting ideas about identity and memory. The novels are also the best Bildungsroman I've read.

>>9989149
If you read Amory Blaine as a self-insert, which he is, then definitely.

So we're robots. You know, I suspected it, but this is the first time someone told me.

>n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
>“Don't work,” he told me, “Just hop on neetbux and ride that sweet, sweet gravy train. Oh, and women are evil, built for BBC."

Ya need more context

I mean, everything is fiction to some degree.

>>9989001

>reading fiction

why? Its literally useless and out of date. Might as well watch shadow puppets. The only reason fictional stories were so full was because no body had anything to fucking do in the 1800s and were lucky to get a book a year.

>>9988857
Cyberpunk books:
Neuromancer
Synners
Altered Carbon
Islands in the Net
Mirrorshades
Schismatrix
Snow Crash

This guy >>9988917 has it right, but especially Neuromancer. It was the inspiration for Shadowrun, down to literally being the source of 'Street Samurai'.

Are there cyberpunk books that don't feel like they were written for nerds?
I'm looking for something more grounded where not all words are replaced by fancy computer terms.
Something like the new Deus Ex games, near future, early transhumanism, not completely dystopian, where most people still live like we do.

>>9989567
I would like to read a book written from a fantasy !not hitlers point of view as he attempts to drive pointy nosed goblins out of his country.

Three part series.

>>9989567
Hang yourself, my man

>Started The Sword of Lictor and just finished the Salamander chapter

I never noticed it before but I love how Severian's depromotion from the guild to doing pointless paperwork is pretty Kafkaesque when you think about it.

Low quality bait.
Saged.

>>9988526
>tries to sage
>bumps my thread
thanks newbuddy

>>9988522
discuss

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>>9988267
Seize the Day by Bellow. It's short and has themes re: drowning.

Crocodile Blood by George Mandel. Also written by a Jew and features near drowning, but set in Florida.

>>9988088
The Art of the Deal

the exact moment that a joint-sponsored ad by nabisco, apple, and pepsicorp interrupts a facebook livestream of three young black men committing a drive-by shooting and demands that you CLICK TO WIN a chance to eat chicken tenders with the executive producer of the movie "300" before you can resume watching humanity consume itself

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Marx and Engels are western, too.

It goes full retard? With a title like that?

>>9987939
>i-it's dystopian!!

Naa, Only Tokyo blues and men without women. Actually reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

>>9987865
None so far. It's on my "list", though. What's it like?

It's brilliant - difficult, but brilliant.

Anyone know where i can find other books by David Lindsay? "The Violet Apple and The Witch" and "Spinhx" i mean.

>>9987859
no. go read lotr, book of the new sun or gormenghast or something else that's worth reading.

Books 1-4 are good. Everything after is trash.

>>9987859
only the first is worth reading

>>9987852
He requied several cow sacrifices. Not the whole cow. You could still eat the meat. However he requiers the blood, don't know what for. Generally his priesthood or wealthy citizens covered the cost.

If you think about it's a pretty good deal. A thousand sacrifices or so a year and inexchange he will not destroy the population with lightening. The average country know pays for inexcess of a thousand cows worth of taxes and we still have a lightening problem!

There's something perverted about Roman mythology, it lacks some innocence that the Greek mythologizers must have had when those myths were being founded.

>>9987860
The gods were tricked into getting the blood and bones of animals, and the humans were allowed to eat the meat.

die teen

lmao how do i upvote and where is the share to facebook button?

>>>/his/

Literally anything you want to read

Buy MYFAROG

>>9987447
romantic poetry
greeks
bibble